Copyright

The Hawthorne in Salem Website, a non-profit site developed and maintained by North Shore Community College, conforms to the copyright regulations of the College.

The collaborating museums, The Peabody Essex Museum, The House of the Seven Gables Historic Site, and The Salem Maritime National Historic Site, have provided permission to use materials from their collections. Permission to use other images on the site has been secured or requested by email or letters to the appropriate cultural institution. Publishers have allowed us to use excerpts from their editions in the Critical Commentary section of the site, and Eric Eldred has allowed us to reprint excerpts from Hawthorne texts posted on his Website in the Related Literature section of the site. (Eric Eldred's Hawthorne Website is now maintained by the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society.) Full texts of lectures, papers, and articles, have been printed with permission of the authors.